3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Wrace wrote:
I am attempting to install the SPP6 right now and need some clarification on installation. The instructions simply say to install it 'over the run capacitor'. I have a call into supco tech support but no reply.
Which of these is the run capacitor, and which terminals are used? The SPP6 has two wires, one of which has a single spade connector, and the other a piggy-back type spade connector.
Thanks
EDIT ADDED: Well, you posted a schematic after I had written the text below. It appears that you have the older style compressor after all and a run/start relay. As such, the Supco goes across the yellow wires on the start capacitor which is shown in the schematic as the dashed line capacitor in the right hand block.
I can't tell much from the photo. But, one of the two capacitors will have wiring going to the fan motor. The other capacitor will have wires going to the A/C compressor.
Unless the compressor is an older version, it will only have two wires. Trace these wires back to the capacitor that is used to start the compressor and make your connection to those two wires. If your capacitor has more than two terminals for connection and one is blank, push the female connector onto that terminal and the double spade to the one furthest away from the empty terminal. If you make a wrong connection on the original capacitor it just won't work - no smoke should come out. In that case, move the wire to the other terminal.
You may not have the needed terminal, in that case cutting and wire nuttin' in the new capacitor wire may be necessary. In alternating current, the capacitor is not polarized so which wire is which is not critical.
My knee jerk from the photo would be the yellow and red wires on the rear capacitor. But, again there is not enough detail to be sure. Trying those two should not result in any harm.
Older compressors may have both start and run windings. If that is your case (which I doubt) you need to be sure you tap the start windings before the switch that cuts off the start winding.
